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Marsh, Herbert W.; Xu, Kate M.; Parker, Philip D.; Hau, Kit-Tai; Pekrun, Reinhard; Elliot, Andrew; Guo, Jiesi; Dicke, Theresa; Basarkod, Geetanjali – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
The big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE), the negative effect of school-/class-average achievement on academic self-concept, is one of educational psychology's most universal findings. However, critiques of this research have proposed moderators based on achievement motivation theories. Nevertheless, because these motivational theories are not…
Descriptors: Evolution, Achievement Need, Academic Achievement, Prediction